154 EuKOPEA.x Butterflies and Moths. 



GENUS I. — ARSILONCHE (LED.). 



Fore-wings rather broad, with the hind margin obHque and sinuated, the tips pointed, and the 

 fringes rounded ; pale-coloured, and almost without markings. The antennae and tongue are 

 short ; the former are not pectinated, and the latter is horny ; the abdomen is considerably longer 

 than the hind-wings. The larva has hairy warts, and the pupa is enclosed in a slight cocoon. The 

 only species, *A. Albovenosa (Goeze), Venosa (Borkh.), has yellowish-white fore -wings, finely dusted 

 with brown, with brownish longitudinal stripes running from the base, as well as from the middle 

 to the hind margin ; hind-wings white. The variety Centripiincta (Herr.-Schaff.), from South 

 Russia, has a black spot in the middle of the fore-wings. Expands from i^ to li inches. It is 

 found in damp meadows in the northern half of Central Europe in May, June, and August. The 

 larva is brownish-grey, with yellow stripes on the back and sides, and rust-coloured warts and 

 hairs. It lives on grass in June, September, and October. The moth is figured at PI. n, Fig. 5. 



GENUS II. — SIMVR.V (OCHS.). 



Resembles ArsiloJiche, but the antenna; of the male are shortly pectinated, the tongue is soft, 

 and the fore-wings are narrow, with the hind margin more oblique. The moths expand from 

 1 1 to \\ inches, and appear in August and September. 



1. 5. Buettneri (Hering). — Fore-wings pale ochre-yellow, reddish-grey below the discoidal 

 cell, and on the inner margin, with a transverse row of black dots beyond the middle, and dark 

 streaks before the hind margin ; the hind-wings are pale reddish, and grey towards the base. Has 

 been taken at Stettin sitting on the trunks of trees, or flying at dusk. 



2. S. Nervosa (W. V.). — Fore-wings brownish-white, with white nervures bordered with ashy- 

 grey ; hind-wings white, dusted with brown. The variety Argentacea (Herr.-Schaff.), from Sarepta, 

 has whitish wings. It inhabits South-Central and Eastern Europe and Western Asia, but is not 

 common. The larva is dark grey, with yellowish hairs, whitish longitudinal lines, and a broad 

 macular stripe on the back. It lives on spurge, sorrel, &c., in June ; and prefers dry places. 

 {S. Dcntinosa, Freyer, from South-Eastern Europe and Western Asia, is grey, with whitish wings, 

 the disc of the fore-wings striped with brown. The abdomen and palpi are longer than in either 

 of the other species.) 



GENUS III.— EOGENA (OUfiN.). 



Body stout, antennae simple, abdomen extending a little beyond the hind-wings. The wings 

 are broad, the fore-wings are rounded at the tips, and the hind margin is scarcely oblique. 

 The only species, E. Coiitaiiiinei (Eversm.), from Sarepta, is rosy fawn colour, the fore-wings 

 with some brown dots on the disc, and the hind-wings very pale rosy, with the base whitish. 



GENUS IV.— NONAGRIA (HUBN.). 



Small or middle-sized moths, with the fore-wings short, and rounded above the hinder angle. 

 They vary from pale ochreous to reddish-brown, and do not exhibit the A^^c/«a-pattern ; only the 

 reniform stigma is sometimes visible, and the lines are frequently indicated by rows of dots. The 

 abdomen extends considerably beyond the anal angle of the hind-wings, and the tongue is strong. 

 The larviE are naked, with horny plates on the 2nd and last segments. They live from autumn 

 till the following summer in the stems of reeds and rushes, and change to pupne within them, and 



